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An additional thought: Have a penultimate encounter, with guards or enslaved beasts, range across four caverns/rooms/areas, each of which is constantly subjected to one of the above seasonal effects. So enemy archers are hanging out at the edge of the Spring Rains, allowing them to benefit from...

Spring - Driving rains make all squares obscured. One Flowering Minion appears next to each non-flying PC at the beginning of the round and tries to use a non-damaging Reflex restrain attack (restrain ends at start of next round, as the flowering minions wither away in the dryness). Escape DC is...

You need an Owlbear Swarm.

Take an Earth Titan and reskin it as a "huge headless stone construct." Its body is covered with aberrant mystical runes, carved with impossibly fine tools - an expert eye can tell you that the entire construct was carved from a single gigantic chunk of rock with disintegration beams. Each...

You are correct, sir. Though thematically it could perhaps be bloodstone. Some kind of... magical translucent bloodstone. One-way bloodstone mirrors! EDIT: Or blood diamonds!

This idea makes sense for almost any of the suggested classes, actually. Lazy Warlord: The lantern contains a tiny study with a comfy chair, bookshelves stuffed to bursting with reference works on the history of combat, one of those ashtrays on a fancy pedestal, a clawed footstool, and another...

The One-Ear speaks truth. A selfish Leader might be especially good. You might consider the always-hilarious Lazy Warlord setup, described as the Pixie bossing everyone around like a child who thinks the world revolves around him. You could even describe your Daily powers as "Tantrums!"

Randomly riffing... He spent his first year of exile learning new ways to hate. This city didn't like him, and worse, it didn't fear him. Formerly a power to be reckoned in his own little pond, he was barely more than a joke to Gloomwrought. He spent his second year of exile learning to let go...

Perhaps they rise up every night. Two armies are locked in a strange, oddly formalized re-enactment of their final day. Every night, one hour after the sun sets, the skeletons claw their way up to the surface to resume their ancient battle. They don't fight right away- first there's the...

Shardminds. Hmm. Most shardminds are individual fragments of the Living Gate. These, however, all calved from the same great splinter of the Gate. They fell in a great cluster like a meteor shower and were embedded in a mountainside like a vein of precious minerals. One was near the surface...

When I DM, I roll in the open unless I have enough notes/stats to require a DM screen, in which case I roll behind the screen because it's easier. Laziness always wins. When I play, I prefer the DM's rolls to be secret, but only because That's How We Did It In 1980, not for any logical reason.

Now I am sad.

Anyone can lead a war. To get Kord's attention you need to fight a war. To be clear, I mean "fight the war" the way you would say "wrestle the crocodile." You beat that damn war into submission with your bare hands. Subdue both sides and send them home through the sheer force of your...

It's hard to go wrong with the flipmats. Groups I play in have used the ship, the marketplace, and especially the blank ones. I like to use a big Chessex Megamat, but a folded flipmat is much easier to transport.

Coincidentally, the final session of our campaign was last night. Another member of the group will start a new 4e campaign in a few weeks. It'll probably be wrapping up about when 5e comes out, at which point we'll decide what to do next. I expect to playtest 5e, but I also expect that will...

Color 3D printing does exist; I got to see some examples about a year ago while visiting an office that had such a printer. They were able to take models from video games and print them, in color. They had some 8-10 inch high figures created in this way, mostly as a test. They looked really good...

A maze of twisty little tunnels, all different. They wrap around the roots of an imprisoned grove of long-suffering treants. The suffering of the treants empowers the evil druidic war machine known as the Biomass Engine. PCs must fight the sub-soil tenders of the entangled root system (gray...

I would restat Reymus as a Level 22 Solo Soldier, throw in some excellent counterattack powers and so forth. Then I'd stage the scene so the primary goal is to not fight him. Three skill challenges, I'm thinking... 1. Get the Grey Guards in the tower to safety / Mobilize them against Reymus...

I think I bookmarked these from someone else's posting here on enworld, but I'm not sure. Either way, consider really messing with the players by using Martian Chess wedges in encounters with the creature.

An idea based on the concepts of "doing most of the work" and "fading into the background." In most skill challenges, the other Castes don't have the option to stay out of it- Nobles and Warriors have a certain image to maintain, Untouchables have a lot to prove, and so forth. But Peasants have...